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Pets & Wildlife

America’s first animal shelter to fete its founding women

April 12, 2019, 6:00am Pets & Wildlife

In 1869, the Women’s Branch of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opened in Philadelphia as the nation’s first animal shelter. Now, 150 years later, it still stands in the form of the Women’s Animal Center, a modern, airy shelter in Bensalem. Read story

A cat smells a flower in the warm spring sun in a garden March 22 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Pets need spring cleaning, too

A cat smells a flower in the warm spring sun in a garden March 22 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

April 12, 2019, 6:00am Pets & Wildlife

Spring has sprung for many and it’s time to air out the house, toss the closets and start plotting the yard work. For pet owners, it’s also the perfect time to take an accounting of furry and feathered loved ones. Read story

Washington state law currently allows qualified nonprofit animal shelters to provide limited veterinary services such as spaying, neutering and electronic identification for pets from low-income families. The Humane Society for Southwest Washington is pushing for a legislative change that would allow the full range of veterinary care.

Humane Society for Southwest Washington to launch $10 million campaign

Washington state law currently allows qualified nonprofit animal shelters to provide limited veterinary services such as spaying, neutering and electronic identification for pets from low-income families. The Humane Society for Southwest Washington is pushing for a legislative change that would allow the full range of veterinary care.

April 8, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Business

The Humane Society for Southwest Washington will launch a $10 million campaign to expand its Vancouver clinic, with the goal of eventually providing veterinary treatment for pets in low-income families. Read story

Patt Doyle, owner of Pampurred Pet Care, sits with the cat Posha during a house visit. She’s been watching the cat for a few years, Doyle said. She doesn’t agree with people who believe that cats are independent and don’t need much tending to. ‘A lot of people say that but cats are predators and they tend to hide their illnesses. And, they are pets, they are used to us being around,’ she said.

Working in Clark County: Patt Doyle, owner of Pampurred Pet Care

Patt Doyle, owner of Pampurred Pet Care, sits with the cat Posha during a house visit. She’s been watching the cat for a few years, Doyle said. She doesn’t agree with people who believe that cats are independent and don’t need much tending to. ‘A lot of people say that but cats are predators and they tend to hide their illnesses. And, they are pets, they are used to us being around,’ she said.

April 8, 2019, 6:00am Business

Patt Doyle is a bonafide cat lady if there ever was one. Read story

Male panda Jiao Qing walks in its enclosure at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 5, 2019.

Panda romance in the air at Berlin zoo, but love takes time

Male panda Jiao Qing walks in its enclosure at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 5, 2019.

April 5, 2019, 9:10am Life

Sometimes love takes its time, but the Berlin zoo is hoping that this is the year for panda romance. Read story

Delores Reed, a supervisory biologist, with Przewalski’s horses at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, which works to save endangered species, including these wild horses, from extinction.

In the Blue Ridge foothills, the National Zoo has a quiet spot for conservation

Delores Reed, a supervisory biologist, with Przewalski’s horses at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, which works to save endangered species, including these wild horses, from extinction.

April 5, 2019, 6:00am Life

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington is home to hundreds of types of animals on exhibit for visitors to see. But less than 100 miles away, members of 20 species live, out of public view, with scientists and researchers in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It’s like a… Read story

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2019, file photo, a tiger that was found in a Southeast Houston residence awaits transport to a rescue facility at the BARC Animal Shelter and Adoptions building in Houston. Police say a judge has ruled that the north Texas animal shelter is allowed to retain a tiger seized from an east Houston home. The Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Murchison has looked after the tiger ever since marijuana smoking 311 callers found the large cat in an abandoned house. Authorities say the 350 pound (159 kilograms) feline was improperly secured in the cage and could have gone on a “rampage.” (Godofredo A.

Judge: Animal shelter to keep tiger seized from Houston home

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2019, file photo, a tiger that was found in a Southeast Houston residence awaits transport to a rescue facility at the BARC Animal Shelter and Adoptions building in Houston. Police say a judge has ruled that the north Texas animal shelter is allowed to retain a tiger seized from an east Houston home. The Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Murchison has looked after the tiger ever since marijuana smoking 311 callers found the large cat in an abandoned house. Authorities say the 350 pound (159 kilograms) feline was improperly secured in the cage and could have gone on a “rampage.” (Godofredo A.

April 4, 2019, 9:11am Life

A judge has ruled that an animal shelter can keep a tiger that was rescued from an abandoned Houston home. Read story

Washington may pursue nonlethal ways to control wolves

April 3, 2019, 9:19am Northwest

The state of Washington could spend nearly $1 million over the next two years on nonlethal ways to prevent wolves from killing livestock in the northeastern corner of the state. Read story

Cougars in the Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains are poised to enter an “extinction vortex” and could disappear from those areas in the next 50 years, new research says.

Rescue plan floated for California cougars

Cougars in the Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains are poised to enter an “extinction vortex” and could disappear from those areas in the next 50 years, new research says.

April 2, 2019, 6:01am Life

The future is looking increasingly bleak for some Southern California mountain lions. Read story

Three Sumatran tiger cubs born at the Taronga Zoo in their habitat, Monday, March 25, 2019, in Sydney, Australia. Taronga Zoo manager Mandy Everett said the cubs were born on Jan. 17 to first-time mother Kartika. The female cubs were named Mawar, or Rose in Indonesian, and Tengah Malam, which means Midnight. The male’s name is Pemanah, or Archer.

3 Sumatran tiger cubs explore jungle habitat in Sydney zoo

Three Sumatran tiger cubs born at the Taronga Zoo in their habitat, Monday, March 25, 2019, in Sydney, Australia. Taronga Zoo manager Mandy Everett said the cubs were born on Jan. 17 to first-time mother Kartika. The female cubs were named Mawar, or Rose in Indonesian, and Tengah Malam, which means Midnight. The male’s name is Pemanah, or Archer.

March 29, 2019, 9:29am Life

Three boisterous 10-week-old rare Sumatran tiger cubs have play-wrestled and explored their jungle habitat in their first public appearance at a Sydney zoo. Read story